It's that coveted day of the year -- when boys and girls become men and women, chefs become better chefs, and all of the media will immediately start debating who deserved a James Beard nomination and who didn't. Get excited!

Mom is finally selling houses! Problem is she isn’t licensed. No big whoop for her, the test will be a breeze! Except she freaks when she meets Kim, a mega realtor who’s sold 358 houses and is getting recertified. She walks out of the test, assuaging her failure with a Chipwitch. Mmmm…now that’s something I can get behind: Chipwitch and a mostly Mom-centric episode.

Kitchen Confidential

Today, Amazon.com placed Kitchen Confidential and The Omnivore’s Dilemma in its first ever list of “100 Books to Read Before You Die,” alongside classics such as To Kill A Mockingbird, The Sun Also Rises, and Fahrenheit 451.

‘I’m dyslexic and until recently I’d never got through a book,” he said this weekend at some unknown event (good journalism, The Daily Mail), saying that reading often bored him due to his disability. “But I read Catching Fire [the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy]. I loved disappearing into a story.”

About ten years ago, a foul-mouthed, has-been chef burst onto the media scene with his memoir, shocking people with his revelations about the seedy underbelly of the restaurant world. (Revelations of note: “don’t order fish on a Monday,” “everyone re-uses bread,” “brunch sucks,” etc.) Fast forward to today: Anthony Bourdain is arguably the most powerful man in the food world, and his word is canon law.

Yesterday was the first day of the New York Wine and Food Festival and what better way to kick off the festivities than with a roast of Anthony Bourdain? Everything you need to know, from the red carpet to the best one-liners, after the jump.

On this week’s Kitchen Confidential, Becky (Erinn Hayes) magically reappears! …To bone Chef Bourdain (Bradley Cooper). Yes, apparently that couple episode-long break her character took was to recover from their last romp, but they’re at it again, while Jack lectures us in a regretful voiceover about how the forbidden fruit is impossible to resist.

While they’re both buzzed, Ripert gets Bourdain to open up about his new primetime cooking competition on ABC, which he’s co-hosting with the “strange but brilliant” Nigella Lawson, as well as his burning desire to eat in the Gaza Strip.